Angela Sasse

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Bridging the Gap Between Usable Security Research and Open-Source Practice — Lessons From a Long-Term Engagement With VeraCrypt

VeraCrypt is a freely available open-source encryption tool popular with tech-savvy users. In a 4-year effort to improve VeraCrypt’s usability to reach less tech-savvy users, we conducted 3 user studies (N=77) and found that participants struggled to successfully encrypt their devices with VeraCrypt. We iteratively re…

CHI '245th+ AuthorPrivacy Perception & Decision-Making +1

Self-Efficacy and Security Behavior: Results from a Systematic Review of Research Methods

Amidst growing IT security challenges, psychological underpinnings of security behaviors have received considerable interest, e.g. cybersecurity Self-Efficacy (SE), the belief in one’s own ability to enact cybersecurity-related skills. Due to diverging definitions and proposed mechanisms, research methods in this fiel…

CHI '235th+ AuthorPrivacy by Design & User Control +2

A World Full of Privacy and Security (Mis)conceptions? Findings of a Representative Survey in 12 Countries

Misconceptions about digital security and privacy topics in the general public frequently lead to insecure behavior. However, little is known about the prevalence and extent of such misconceptions in a global context. In this work, we present the results of the first large-scale survey of a global population on miscon…

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